He whines, he complains, he ducks out of the most obvious responsibility. He is vain, petty and maddening, but he doesn't ever quit.
Sometimes, if you want to change a man's mind, you have to change the mind of the man next to him first.
These people make my family look easy to get along with.
I am not sure I trust you." "You can trust me with your life, My King." "But not with my wine, obviously. Give it back.
But there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.
It isn't an easy thing to give your loyalty to someone you don't know, especially when that person chooses to reveal nothing of himself.
Were you lying?" "I never lie," he said piously. "About what?" "The sand, the snake." For a young man who never lied, he seemed surprisingly unoffended by the question.
He didn't marry you to become king. He became king because he wanted to marry you.
No man can choose to serve only himself when he has something to offer his state. No one can put his own wishes above the needs of so many.
Would you like to hear more romance of the evening? He told me that the Guard should be reduced by half, and I threw an ink jar at his head." "Is that when he cried?" "He ducked," Attolia said dryly. Grown more confident of the queen's humor, Relius ...
If we truly trust no one, we cannot survive.
